The petition of the Jewish community of Birzula, Ukraine
Item
Title
The petition of the Jewish community of Birzula, Ukraine
Description
The image contains the cover page of a petition by the Jewish community of Birzula, a town located in the northern part of Odessa oblast of Ukraine. On the 20th of June 1923 the Jewish community of Birzula sent a petition to the central authorities, which requested an intervention by Moscow and Kharkiv (the capital of Soviet Ukraine) in support of their congregation whose synagogue had been seized by local authorities and turned into a club-theatre. The petition describes the recent experience of building a common religious space by a community that had been steadily growing in numbers. The authors of the petition present the synagogue not only as a piece of religious heritage but also as part of Jewish national patrimony and a physical and material evidence of who they are. The final decision of the central authorities was to divest the Jewish community of its synagogue, which was subsequently used as an venue for gatherings of local workers.
The petition is contained in a file compiled by the provincial authorities in Odessa in order to facilitate the examination of the status of the synagogue by the central authorities. The file 5-1-2190 is from the Central State Archives of Ukraine.
The petition is contained in a file compiled by the provincial authorities in Odessa in order to facilitate the examination of the status of the synagogue by the central authorities. The file 5-1-2190 is from the Central State Archives of Ukraine.
Subject
Communism and Christianity--Europe, Eastern
Material culture--Religious aspects
Judaism
Creator
Dumitru Lisnic
Source
Central State Archives of Ukraine, 5-1-2190
Publisher
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme No . 677355
Date
1923
Contributor
Dumitru Lisnic
Rights
Central State Archives of Ukraine
Format
jpg
Language
RU
Type
image
Identifier
Central State Archives of Ukraine, 5-1-2190
Coverage
Ukraine
Bibliographic Citation
Dumitru Lisnic, ”The petition of the Jewish community of Birzula, Ukraine”
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Date Created
2021